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Heinz Höhne (also Hoehne) is
a German journalist
who specializes in Nazi and intelligence
history.Born in Berlin in 1926 and
educated there until he was called to fight during the last months
of the Second World War.After the
war, he studied journalism in Munich and went on
to work for various newspapers as a freelance reporter. In
1955, the weekly magazine Der
Spiegel hired him, where he joined the foreign staff of
the magazine and eventually took charge of the Anglo-American
department. It is while employed for Der Spiegel that he
became famous for his exploits. Heinz's controversial efforts in
covering unexploited areas of Nazi history earned him renown as his
painstaking efforts exposed and elucidated missing pieces of the
Nazi puzzle. His most famous of these works is titled
The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS.(Der Orden unter dem Totenkopf:
Die Geschichte der SS). This work first appeared in 1967, and
many other notable works subsequently followed, such as his 1971
revisionist study of the Soviet
Unions's spy network entitled Codeword: Direktor. In
1976, Höhne went on to write Canaris, a radical interpretation of Hitler's
spymaster, who was in charge of the Abwehr.

Another notable work from Höhne is Krieg im Dunkeln
(1985), which examines the centuries old relationship between
Russian and German intelligence collection. Since his retirement,
Heinz Höhne has worked on a complete history of the Third Reich. The first volume of this, Gebt
mir vier Jahre Zeit, appeared in 1996. Höhne presently
resides in Hamburg with his
wife.

Notes

Heinz Höhne, The Order of the Death's Head (New York: Penguin
Books, 1971).

See biographical information "About the Author" submitted in
Heinz Höhne, The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of
Hitler's SS.(New York:
Penguin Books, 2000).

Bibliography

The Order of the Death's Head: The Story
of Hitler's SS.(Der Orden unter dem Totenkopf:
Die Geschichte der SS) First published in 1967.

Codeword: Direktor. (1971)

with Hermann Zolling, The General Was a Spy: The Truth
About General Gehlen and His Spy Ring (1972) (American edition
of Pullach Intern, 1971, which was originally a series of
articles for Der Spiegel, according to the book's fronts
pages)